Meanings
nounapoplex (countable and uncountable, plural apoplexes)
plural apoplexes
- countableobsoleteuncountableObsolete form of apoplexy.
He bears into the bath, whence want of breath, Repletions, apoplex, intestate death.
1693, Decimus Junius Juvenalis, John Dryden, transl., “[The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis.] The First Satyr”, in The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis. Translated into English Verse. […] Together with the Satires of Aulus Persius Flaccus. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson […], →OCLC
verbapoplex (third-person singular simple present apoplexes, present participle apoplexing, simple past and past participle apoplexed)
present singular third person apoplexes · participle present apoplexing · participle past apoplexed · past apoplexed
- To suffer a fit of apoplexy.
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